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Category Archives: Miscellaneous
Website Update Update
The largest unexploded shell I have encountered on my travels. And your comments have returned. Thank you Baldrick.
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Website Update
Hello boys & girls. You may or may not have noticed, but all your comments have disappeared! Actually, they haven’t disappeared, but it seems we have a slight glitch since the site was recently updated and the comments are failing … Continue reading
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A Little Light Reading
There are a few of you that I know of who are still around from the very early days of this website (and thank you so much), and, hopefully, a few more that I am maybe not aware of, but … Continue reading
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A Stroll along the Mole or “Wanna see some Tank Traps?”
To which the answer is always a resounding “Yes”. And who knows what else one might see on the way? Twenty years ago people would have flocked from all over the country to see one of these. Now I spot … Continue reading
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When the Levee Breaks…
…I’ll have no place to stay. A few shots of last night’s dramas.
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Weekend Report
A few shots from this weekend’s Flanders excursion.
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Remembrance in Miniature
Because it’s going to take a while to write the text to accompany the photos I took last week (and yes, we also have more French Flanders cemeteries to visit, and I promised you Kemmel for this year – I … Continue reading
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